Hi. We had the same problem when we moved into our current home, but both our doors open. We found that there was a screen door at HD or Lowes that could be installed which pulled out from the side when needed. After some investigation we were told that the cheaper model that could be installed yourself had a large return rate to the store, however the more expensive brand had to be installed by the company was very expensive. We ended up calling a company here on Island that make screens to fit any door. Unfortunately we can only use one side, but it cost us $125.00 instead of close to $800.00. Good luck! Jenny

I know there are some cheap screen doors out there so thanks for heads up to be careful getting one of those. If they don't make something substantial that will stay on tracks or whatever, I guess I'll just forget about it and stop looking. It's surely not worth 800.00. :-)

Phantom screens has a retractable screen system with it's own track that can be mounted iterior/exterior and when mounted is very inconspicuos and is a quality unit.Here's the link.Look under door screens on their web site, i think the second or third page.Contact for a nearby distributor.

We have a small dog, so the retracting screen door wasn't an option. (One squirrel-sighting and we'd have a hole.)

Who is the manufacturer of your door? They probably make a screen that matches that door. We have 8-foot Pella french doors with a 10" bottom panel and Pella screen doors with the same bottom panel. The doors open in and the screen doors open out.

Yep, it can be done... and for pets and kids, just get glass at the bottom... our door has glass at the bottom and when you pull down the glass on the top it pulls down a screen. This is great so you don't have to see the screen when the glass is shut. Our French doors open into the house and the screen door opens out (only one French door actually opens...the one on the right looking out of the house)

I did this cheap & easy with raw netting & velcro, and I've been very pleased with it. It works fine if you don't go through the doors much. Cost well under $100.
1. I bought raw mosquito netting (from mosquitocurtains.com).
2. Cut it to fit across both doors, allowing extra width to fold edges under for neat appearance, & of course some overlap onto the door frame where the velcro would be.
3. Attached 1" velcro patches, 3 across the top and about 4 down each side. (I stapled one side of the velcro onto the curtains with an ordinary stapler - 2 staples on each. Super quick. Nailed their mates to the door frame (eek!) with 3 small nails.

Doorframe, curtains & velcro are all white, and it looks surprisingly neat and nice. (I could even white-out the nail heads!) Still, in winter I'll probably take it down, leaving just a few inconspicuous little velcro patches.

If you want the velcro patches on the walls to be non-permanent, leave the backing on the patches (don't expose the adhesive). Then when you move out, all that's left is a few nail holes that can be filled - probably more easily than removing velcro adhesive.

We just had a Bella Retractable Screen Door installed on our front French doors. We did it ourselves. It's a VERY hefty product compared to what we saw at Lowes. There is a very deep bottom track, a full-length magnetic strip and it has what they call a clutch which allows for a slow, automatic retraction. Nice! I wouldn't buy one without the clutch.

I know you can put screen doors on french doors and they are also French Screens. I had them on a house in southern California. However I cannot find a supplier and I live in San Antonio TX. Any suggestions. I can't use retractable. My previous ones also locked